It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]
Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.
Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.